Why can't we give the American people a break and separate humor from politics?
— Dan Crenshaw
Flooding is the most urgent issue that Houstonians are facing.
There's bipartisan efforts to change how FEMA works or, more importantly, change how relief funding trickles down to us down here.
Americans can forgive one another.
I want you to say 'Never Forget' because when you say 'Never Forget' you're thanking that veteran in a different way. You're allowing them to be thankful for the idea for the fact that as an American you're in it with them. We're in it together and we don't forget together.
Everybody has a purpose in this world.
We can prove to the American people that fixing the crisis at our border is more important than scoring political points.
Politicians should aim for higher discourse, the media should report context instead of seeking to inflame the public, and the public should not reward bad behavior nor engage in it on social media.
When you say 'never forget' to a veteran, you are implying that, as an American, you are in it with them.
You can say that your ideas are bad for America, and frankly un-American, but don't say the person is a traitor.
Rebuilding the civic fabric of Central American countries is the only long-term solution to stemming the flow of illegal migration, and without Mexico as a willing partner, the U.S. will continue to fight an impossibly uphill battle.
There are a lot of veterans out there who would not think their wounds would be the source of poor jokes in bad taste to a hysterically laughing audience.
There are many ideas that we will never agree on. The left and the right have different ways of approaching governance, based on contrasting philosophies. But many of the ultimate goals - economic prosperity, better health care and education, etc. - are the same. We just don't share the same vision of how to achieve them.
We bring the fight to the enemy so that they don't bring it to us.
The need for physical border security is a very real one. But equally important is the need to focus on the source of the problem: mass emigration from Central America.
As veterans we should be smarter about how we talk about things.
As a long-time supporter of Israel, I will ensure that our alliance does not waver, and that America continues to support Israeli security, advocate for her on the international stage, and contain the threat from Iran and terrorism across the region.
Houston's been getting flooded for a very long time. We always have to prepare for disasters and we have to do this in a very bipartisan way.
We have to make conservatism cool and exciting again.
Everybody says 'Thank you for your service' and I'll tell you what, veterans really appreciate that.
Because of a massive backlog of asylum cases and an inability to quickly adjudicate and enforce them, more migrants are making the journey to our border.
One must be deliberately ignoring reality to pretend that our asylum process is not being abused.
Each day I wake up and check the news. Nearly every day it's merely to make sure I did not miss anything wildly controversial. Who said what, what are the implications of that comment, what was the context of what was said? Some days are slow, which is great. We can focus on a particular policy issue or piece of legislation.
We can remember what brings us together as a country.
I will attack ideas very hard. I am not shy about that one bit. So I don't want people to think that because I had a call for civility that that means I shy away from debate and that I'm agreeable. That's not the case. What is the case is that I will not question who you are as a person.
Even if we were able to agree on an ideal set of immigration laws, enforcing such laws in the face of hundreds of thousands of cases is impossible in practice.
Labeling someone as an '-ist' who believes in an '-ism' because of the person's policy preference is just a shortcut to playground-style name-calling, cloaked in political terminology.
As a country, we still have a lot of work to do. We need to agree on some basic rules for civil discourse.
Voters have consistently brought up the topic of 'endless wars' and demands to 'bring the troops home' to me since I ran for office. It's not a left-right issue, either: Both sides question our military presence abroad.
I know from my experience as a Navy SEAL that barriers work.
I dreamed even after I laid down my rifle I would continue to uphold my oath to defend the Constitution.
If you think winning means a porous border with 400,000 people apprehended illegally every year, then your definition of winning is different than mine.
We have to bring back that Reagan optimism.
You know you don't want to see somebody in that kind of position to the point where they're actually putting out a cry for help on social media. That's not a good place to be in.
We can prove that we are in the business of governing responsibly, upholding our rule of law, and giving priority to those immigrants willing to apply legally versus those who leverage our system's loopholes.
As Americans, we have to be honest and ask ourselves a question: Do we really want to tone down politics? I always hear a resounding 'yes,' and I think most people mean that genuinely. But do our practices ever change?
This life, this purpose, this American spirit that we hold dear - we are not alone. We do it together.
I mean, the idea of a government shutdown, it's a consequence of our system.
The president is under no obligation to sign the spending bills that Congress gives to him. And once that happens, once he says no, then you're supposed to negotiate.
For those of us living in Texas and other border states, the reality of an open and unsecured border is a part of everyday life.
If you think my idea is awful, you should say as much. But there is a difference between attacking an idea and attacking the person behind that idea.
The allies we formerly relied on - the Kurds and the Syrian Democratic Forces - will have little interest in helping us after we abandon them to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Give the benefit of the doubt to your opponents if they walk back a controversial statement.
